UK Bans Google Glass in Movie Theaters, Is the U.S. Next?

If you plan on catching the latest blockbuster at any cinema in the United Kingdom, you'll want to leave your Google Glass at home

Just days after Google announced that its wearable heads-up information display technology was arriving in the UK, theater owners put a global block on use of the device inside any one of the UK's roughly 3,900 screens.

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Phil Clapp, CEO of the Cinema Exhibitors’ Association in the UK, the organization which represents UK's theater owners, cited film piracy concerns and said UK theater managers do not want Google Glass owners wearing the devices "regardless of whether the film is playing or not." Read more...

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